As of today The Beauty is available to buy in the US from Titan Books, and that is a very strange thought. I wrote it about five years ago, in the frame of mind that since nobody published my stories anyway I might as well write something entirely to please myself. I put all my… Continue reading Still Beautiful

Stories! It will come as no surprise whatsoever to you that I love them. I got some brilliant ones for Christmas which will kick-start my 2018 nicely, but right now I’m looking back (with the help of Goodreads) at the books I read and loved in 2017. These aren’t necessarily books that were published in… Continue reading My Favourite Reads of 2017

On the surface it was a serene writing year for me. I didn’t put a lot out there. I glided along, occasionally quacking in the form of a short story or two. Underneath those unruffled feathers, I was paddling furiously. I’ve written a lot this year, which means 2018 will look a bit frenetic, but… Continue reading 2017: The year of the Duck in the Mist

Recommendations! It’s that time of year when everybody lists things. I’m not quite ready to do that yet because this is also the time of year when I get a lot of reading done in an attempt to shrink my TBR pile before Santa shows up. So my best reads of the year, and a… Continue reading Dark Fiery Non-Fiction

Helping out with The Eden Book Society is turning out to be an unpleasant business. Reading so many horror novellas back to back, scouring through them for clues of hidden meanings and purposes, has given me some very strange dreams. And that’s when I do manage to fall asleep. For those people who have backed… Continue reading Exhaustion, confusion and a Reddit AMA

That would be me, being weird by reading aloud at Waterstones in Cambridge on Friday 24th November from 6-8pm. I’ll be in amazingly good company. Gary Budden and Christopher Priest will also be reading, and then we’ll be answering questions. I hope there aren’t many geography questions. I’m not too good at geography. This event… Continue reading Weird at Waterstones

That’s right… the countdown has begun to the resurrection of the Eden Book Society, where old horror books from a mysterious family publisher are brought back from the dead. You can find all the details here. These books aren’t just a myth. They really exist. They exist with the help of writers such as: Andrew… Continue reading The Eden Horror is Here